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Steve Lambert's writing has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Chiron Review, Saw Palm, The Pinch, Broad River Review, Tampa Review, Longleaf Review, Cortland Review, and many other places. In 2018 he won Emrys Journal’s Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of four Pushcart Prize nominations and was a Rash Award in Fiction finalist. He is the author of the poetry collections Heat Seekers (2017) and The Shamble (2021), the chapbook In Eynsham (2020), and the fiction collection The Patron Saint of Birds (2020). His novel, Philisteens, came out in May, 2021. The collaborative fiction text, Mortality Birds, written with Timothy Dodd, was published by Southernmost Books in 2022. In 2024 Southernmost Books reissued his fiction collec ...more

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